Example sentences of "been sufficient [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 2 | A necessary condition of this is that there has been sufficient money to enable it to function ( barely true for instance in Zaire , and parts of Nigeria and Tanzania in the 1980s ) , and that civil strife has been contained , sometimes ruthlessly . |
| 3 | There had been sufficient hardship to take my mind off Joan , but as I sat there alone and well rested , I could not help worrying . |
| 4 | Had all that netting and noise been sufficient deterrent ? |
| 5 | Your relationship with Petula should have been sufficient deterrent . |
| 6 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 7 | The police officer agreed Anderson would have been charged at that stage if there had been sufficient evidence . |
| 8 | There must have been sufficient air trapped in the bag . |
| 9 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 10 | A booking would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 11 | A penalty would have been sufficient punishment . |
| 12 | I pause to indicate those would not have been sufficient grades to get her her place at Norwich , close quotations , close brackets . |
| 13 | Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour . |
| 14 | Moreover , Mary had a matter of her own to digest which at any other time would have been sufficient preoccupation . |
| 15 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 16 | He said there had been sufficient time to bring an action , and awarded costs against the parents . |
| 17 | Since the proposal was published in November 1990 , there has not been sufficient time to assess the reactions of the earth science departments funded by NERC to it . |
| 18 | This is because there has not been sufficient time to build up goodwill connected with the name and , hence , there is little danger that the public will be confused . |